Monthly Archives: August 2024

Eskenazi Offers Health Fairs for the Community

INDIANAPOLIS — Eskenazi Health Center is recognizing National Health Center Week by hosting two health fairs for the community. Offerings will include free blood pressure screenings, health information, games, prizes and giveaways. Radio One will be partnering on the event and will broadcast live during both health fairs. The two … Read More

John Franklin Hay Retires from NEAR

INDIANAPOLIS — Recently, Executive Director John Franklin Hay announced his retirement from Near East Area Renewal (NEAR). The organization’s community development initiatives over the past 11 years have helped reshape the east side in many ways. The NEAR Board of Directors will immediately begin a search for a new Executive … Read More

State Launches Safe Zones Pilot Program

INDIANA — To protect the lives of motorists and construction workers across the Hoosier State, INDOT announces the official launch of Indiana Safe Zones, a five-year worksite speed control pilot program authorized by House Enrolled Act 1015 during the 2023 legislative session. Starting Wednesday, Aug. 14, camera technology will be … Read More

FoodCon Returns to Harrison Center

INDIANAPOLIS — In 2010, the Harrison Center partnered with the Cultural Development Commission, Butler University’s Center for Urban Ecology, and Indiana Humanities to create the first FoodCon, an unconventional convention celebrating the art and culture of food in Indiana. Local businesses and foodie neighbors manned booths and shared information with … Read More

New Exhibition at Eiteljorg Features Reunited Works of Alfred Jacob Miller

INDIANAPOLIS — A new exhibition opening at the Eiteljorg Museum brings together breathtaking paintings, watercolors and drawings by a major 19th century artist of the American West, Alfred Jacob Miller, who was eyewitness to a historic gathering in the Rocky Mountains in 1837. Alfred Jacob Miller: Revisiting the Rendezvous in … Read More